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=> It doesn't take a genius to see why they killed him...

It doesn't take a genius to see why they killed him...
Posted by Jeffrey (Guest) - Tuesday, October 25 2011, 5:55:30 (UTC)
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Muammar Gaddafi
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مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي

Born June 1942[nb 1]
Sirte, Italian Libya
(now Libya)
Died 20 October 2011 (aged 69)

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi[1] (Arabic: مُعَمَّر القَذَّافِي‎ Muʿammar al-Qaḏḏāfī About this sound audio (help·info);[variations] (June 1942[nb 1] – 20 October 2011), commonly known as Muammar Gaddafi play /ˈmoʊ.əmɑr ɡəˈdɑːfi/ or Colonel Gaddafi, was Libya's head of state from 1969, when he seized power in a bloodless military coup, until 1977, when he stepped down from his official executive role as Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council of Libya, and claimed subsequently to be merely a symbolic figurehead.[2][3] Critics have often described him as Libya's de facto autocrat,[4][5] a claim his Libyan regime officially denied.[2][3] In 2011, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya regime he established was overthrown in a civil war which consisted of an uprising aided by a NATO intervention. His 42-year leadership prior to the uprising made him the fourth longest-serving non-royal leader since 1900, as well as the longest-serving Arab leader.[6] He variously styled himself as "the Brother Leader" and "Guide of the Revolution"; in 2008 a meeting of traditional African rulers bestowed on him the title "King of Kings".[7]

After seizing power in 1969, he abolished the Libyan Constitution of 1951. He established laws based on the political ideology[8] he had formulated, called the Third International Theory and published in The Green Book.[9][10] After establishing the jamahiriya ("state of the masses") system in 1977, he officially stepped down from power and had since then held a largely symbolic role within the country's offical governance structure.[2][3] Rising oil prices and extraction in Libya led to increasing revenues. By exporting as much oil per capita as Saudi Arabia and through various welfare programs, Libya achieved the highest living standards in Africa; though not as high as several similarly oil-rich Gulf countries,[11][12] Libya remained debt-free under his regime.[13] Gaddafi and his relatives, however, had been accused by critics of taking over much of the economy.[citation needed] Gaddafi started several wars and acquired chemical weapons.[14] The United Nations called Libya under Gaddafi a pariah state.[15][16] In the 1980s, countries around the world imposed sanctions against Gaddafi.[17] Six days after the capture of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003 by United States troops,[18] Gaddafi renounced Tripoli's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs and welcomed international inspections to verify that he would follow through on the commitment.[19] A leading advocate for a United States of Africa, he served as Chairperson of the African Union (AU) from 2 February 2009 to 31 January 2010.
/There's more on Wikipedia, but I cut it off here.

....highest standard of living in the continent for decades?
....debt free?
....this is a recipe for disaster when your entire economic/military-industrial-complex/political system is based upon debt and taking advantage of people who have lower standards of living.

What am I missing? And I just grabbed this snippet from Wikipedia.



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